Viewas a noun
Viewas a noun means a belief, opinion or idea about something:
I don’t have strongviewson religion.(orI don’t have strong views about religion.)
What are yourviewson climate change?(orWhat are your views about climate change?)
We can introduce our ideas within my vieworfrom my point of view:
In my view, everyone should stay in school until they are 18.
Not:In my point of view…
I spent two months working in England.From my point of view, that was the easiest way to learn English.
Not:In my point of view… orOn my point of view…
We usefrom my point of viewto express how we see something or how it affects us personally. When we are expressing our beliefs or opinions, we usein my opinionorin myview.
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How the speaker is personally affected by something. | A general opinion about the clothes people will be wearing in 100 years’ time. |
See also:
Think
We can usepoint of viewas a noun phrase in the singular or plural:
If you ask people how the economic crisis affects them, you will get many differentpoints of view.
We can also useviewto refer to what we can see from a particular place:
Theviewfrom my window is amazing.
We booked a room with aview, but our room was overlooking the car park.
Viewas a verb
We also useviewas a verb to mean ‘hold an opinion’:
How does your companyviewunions?(What is the company’s opinion of unions?)
Changes are oftenviewedwith suspicion.
In formal contexts, we can useviewto mean ‘watch or look at something’:
The DVD can also beviewedon your PC.
Viewcan also mean ‘look at a house when you are thinking of buying or renting it’:
We’re still looking for a house. We’veviewedten places already and we didn’t like any of them.